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Lands that no longer serve a purpose over-populate modern Russia and outline the appearance of the country today. In Motherland (2016-2017), fire lights up and the past perishes before the camera, social structures and utopia ideologies of the soviet era seem to fade altogether. Tkachenko believes this action is a commemoration of the past and its effect on the present. On the opposite side of the gallery space is the series Acid (2019). Air pollution, viruses and even radiation are undetected by the eye but remains as threats to the human race. As Tkachenko observes, in mass culture, acidic …